Haland: Human-AI Coordination via Policy Generation from Language-guided Diffusion

Lei Yuan, Kunmin Lin, Ziqian Zhang, Lihe Li, Feng Chen, Jingyu Ru, Cong Guan, Yang Yu

Keywords: Multi-agent Reinforcement Learning, Human-AI Coordination, Coordination and Cooperation, Reinforcement Learning

TL;DR: A novel approach for efficient Human-AI Coordination based on diffusion and language

Abstract: Developing intelligent agents that can effectively coordinate with diverse human partners is a fundamental goal of artificial general intelligence. Previous approaches typically generate a variety of partners to cover human policies, and then either train a single universal agent or maintain multiple best-response (BR) policies for different partners. However, the first direction struggles with the stochastic and multimodal nature of human behaviors, and the second relies on costly few-shot adaptations during policy deployment, which is unbearable in real-world applications such as healthcare and autonomous driving. Recognizing that human partners can easily articulate their preferences or behavioral styles through natural languages and make conventions beforehand, we propose a framework for Human-AI Coordination via Policy Generation from Language-guided Diffusion, referred to as Haland. Haland first trains BR policies for various partners using reinforcement learning, and then compresses policy parameters into a single latent diffusion model, conditioned on task-relevant language derived from their behaviors. Finally, the alignment between task-relevant and natural languages is achieved to facilitate efficient human-AI coordination. Empirical evaluations across diverse cooperative environments demonstrate that Haland generates agents with significantly enhanced zero-shot coordination performance, utilizing only natural language instructions from various partners, and outperforms existing methods by approximately 89.64\%.

Primary Area: reinforcement learning

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